Letters from Mexico

Author	Thucydides
ISBN	0140440399

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...

Author	Bernal Díaz del Castillo
ISBN	0140441239

Vivid and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma’s Aztec empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly...

Author	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
ISBN	0140436774

Demoré muchísimo en terminarlo pero me pasaba algo raro. Cuando lo leía me parecía grandioso. No quería dejarlo. Quería saber que pasaba con Rosas y Facundo. Además el estilo de escritura me pareció fascinante. Algunas partes leía en voz ala y le daba el tono que pienso que Sarmiento le quiso...

Author	Juana Inés de la Cruz
ISBN	1558610774

Espíritu Indómito

Only a century ago the gentler sex was encouraged to lead more simple and elegant lives free from study and occupation where they were expected to devote themselves to beauty, grace, family, and home. In seventeenth century New Spain, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz sought enlightenment...

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Mary Beard

Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II)

Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears--and,...